The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1949, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNFAU, ALASKA — WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1949 3 ENGINES FAIL IN BLAZE ALOFT, B-36 LIMPS IN FORT WORTH, Tex., July 20— A B-36 bomber made a 20-milc flight home yesterday after dropped one engine and two other engines of the same wing quit working. A Carswell Air Force Base pub- | lic relations officer said he be- lieved it was the first time the huge, six-engine bomber had flown on the engines of only one wing. The pilot was Capt. Harold Barry of Hillszoro, Ill. The plane carried a normal crew of 15. did not say how high or how it was flying. The inside engine on the bom- ber’s left wing caught fire, burned itself free and dropped near tin, in North Texas. This cut the electrical connection to the other two left-wing engines. BANK ROBBERS TRY GETAWAY BY SEAPLANE KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont., July 20| —(M—Two holdup men robbed a| branch of the Imperial Bank of| Canada at Larder Lake yesterday,| commandeered a seaplane at gun- | point and attempted a getaway bv‘ air. i Police last night arrested Leo| Martial, 27, who told them his! companion was drowned in the lake during the attempted getaway by air. Police, however, continued to search the area. Today they ar-| rested Victor Desmarais, 23. Both| men were held without a charge. | Police Chief Ralph Paul said Martial told him his companion had jumped from the plane into the lake, taking the loot with him. The loot was between $2,000 and $12,000. | In Toronto, the Telegram pub- lished a picture described as show- | ing two men in the act of stealing | the seaplane. It shows the men, one with a gun crooked under his | arm, forcing the air base operator, Jack Lamont, to start the plane. The plane never got into the air. It taxied across the lake and piled up on the opposite shore. HEIRESS HUTTON SICK IN PARIS, SENDS FOR SON DEDHAM, Mass, July 20—P—| Woolworth heiress*Barbara Hutton | Troubetzkoi is critically ill in]| Paris, her weight down to 88 pounds, and she needs her 13- year-old son with her, a court was told today. She is too ill to make the voyage to see her son, Lance, whose cus- tody she has shared with a former husband, Danish Count Curt| Haugwitz Reventlow, the court was told. Her condition was disclosed in Probate Court when Judge Arthur W. Davis granted her ‘custody of the boy until Sepv. 15. HARRY BRIDGES | IS NAMED PRES., NEW INTL. UNION| PARIS, July 20—(M—The Com- munist newspaper L'Humanite to-| day announced the election of| Harry Bridges as President of a new International Union of Sea—l men and Dockers. Bridges heads the CIO Long- shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s | Union in the United States. L'Humanite said Bridges was chosen at a weekend meeting in Marseille of leaders in the World Federation of Trade Unions. The unions of non-Communist countries have withdrawn from the Federation. fast | Ohio, General Grand Secretary The surface of the Atlantic ocean is far more salty than the surface of the other great oceans. DEDICATED TO SERVICE i The Air Force | Jus- | | and the presentation of its chart- | bery. | ofiicers of Taku Chapter. | neau on either the 28th or 29th for | Fairbanks and Anchorage to com- | return, { neau last year. Distinguished Royal Arch Masons Making Pilgrimage Through Aiaska, Here July 21 NO NEGOTIATING WITH BRIDGES IN HAWAIl STRIKE Four distinguished Royal Arch HONOLULU, July 20—(#—Em-! iMnsons are making an official trip | through the territory of Alaska in | the interest of Royal Arch Masonry and will be in Juneau Wednesday, | July 27. The party will consist of Earl E. Dusenbery, who is the General Grand High Priest of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Ma- sons with headquarters in Des Moines, Towa, accompanied by Mrs Dusenbery; Frank E. Simmons of Winni- | peg, Manitoba, Past Grand First | Principal of the Grand Chapter |of Royal Arch Masons of Manito- [ ba, also Past General Grand Royal Arch Captain of the General Grand | Chapter, accompanied by Mrs. Sim- mons; Roscoe R. Walcutt, of C(lllllfl‘)\l&.‘ of | the General Grand Chapter of the | { Royal Arch Masons; William E. Pool of Mankato, Minn., Past Grand High Priest of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons as well as Past Grand Commander of Knights Templar for the State of Minne- sota. At the present time he is i General Grand Custodian of the | General Grand Chapter. This party will come north on the next trip of the Princess Louise, arriving in Ketchikan on July In Juneau July 27 Arriving in Juneau on Wednes- day, July 27, by plane from Ketchikan, arrangements are being made for a no-host dinner to be held at the hour of 7 o’clock p.m. in the Scottish Rite Temple to which invitations are being issued to all Master Masons living on Gastineau Channel and vicinity. At this dinner these four noted speak- ers will be heard. Following this banquet, the special ceremony of instituting Taku Chapter No. 6 25 er will be conducted by Mr. Dusen- During their stay here plans are being formulated for a school of instruction for the benefit of me{ The party expects to leave Ju- official visitation the Territory. During their ab- sence Mrs. Dusenbery and Mrs, | Simmons will remain in Juneau | and join their husbands on their plete their in This will be one of the few occasions when Masons in Alaska will have opportunity to have in their midst four distinguished Grand Lodge officers, all of whom are members of the Red Cross ¢l Constantine and looked upon as outstanding Masonic scholars and speakers. Four Alaska Chapters At the present time there are four active chapters in Alaska, one | at Fairbanks, known as Fairbanks Chapter No. 1, one in Anchorage known as Anchorage Chapter No. 3, one in Ketchikan known as Tongass Chapter No. 5 and one in Juneau known as Taku Chapter No. 6, the last two named being the youngest chapters, having re- ceived dispensations at the trien- nial convocation of the General Grand Chapter held in New York City last October. Each of the above chapters will be officially visited by these high ranking Royal Arch Masons. Mr. Dusenbery is a great Ma- sonic scholar and orator and in his | high office of General Grand High | Priest has given much nssumn"e and encouragement in the spread- ing of Royal Arch Masonry in Alaska and especially m the crea- tion of the two 1ec(-mly formed chapters in Ketchikan and Ju- While making their official visit to Tongass Chapter No. 5 in Ketchikan, this chapter will be officially instituted and re- | ceive their charter, which ceremony will be conducted by Mr. Dusen- bery. EARL E. DUS NBERY ot the Arch Masons | Grand Lecturer Chapter of Royal Minnesota HOUS!NG GFFKML HOSPITALIZ Recuperating from a {eration is Mrs. . Lucille former Alaska Housing Mr. Walcutt is a lawyer by pro- | representative in Juneau. fession and a member of the Ohio | released from St. State Legislature, recognized as a | yesterday after 15 days, noted orator and who has received : to leave for major Authorit Grard ED HERE | op- Johnson, She was Ann’s Hospital and plans California the end of FRANK E. SIMMONS | 7 ployers objected today to nego.I tiating Hawaii's 81-day dock strike with Harry Bridges in Washington. They withheld final decision, how- ever. “We don't want Bridges to be {the hero that settles this strike,” said a spokesman for seven struck stevedore firms. Senator Douglas (D-1ID, in Washington, suggested that the president of the striking CIO In- ternational Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union try to |settle the wage dispute with a management representative and a | Federal conciliator. Bridges agreed. But the employer spokesman said Bridges has never taken part in negotiations here and the dispute is too complex to be settled fairly outside Hawaii. STRATEGIC RECON| 'SQUADRON ARRIVES AT LADD AIR BASE | FAIRBANKS, July 20—(®—Ar rival of the 343rd Strategic Recon- naissance Squadron and two other units of the Strategic Air Command for a 90-day assignment at Ladd Field was announced today by Brig. | Gen. Dale V. Gaffney, 5001st Wing | Commander. Accompanying the 343rd, which flies B-29 Superfortresses, were cadres of the 324th Strategic Re- | connaissance Squadron from Mc~ Quire Air Force Base at Fort Dix, {N.J, and the Seventh Geodetic Squadron from Forbes Air Force | ?Ba\c. Topeka, Kas. Both units are MUSIC AND COFFEE — Jan Kicpura and Martha Eggerth, husband and wife, record the songs of fheir new film, “Valse Brillante,” in Paris, and have coffee between numbers. under command of Major George C. Player, Greenwood, S.C. The units were sent into the' north to photomap the Alaska mainland and to obtain experience in Arctic operation and navigation SEEKS DIVORCE Olive Lucille Smith, attorney, Robert Boochever, filed application for a from Arthur Oscar Smith, grounds of incompatibility. has on The Seventh Geodetic flies C-82! The Smiths, married September “Boxcars.” /10, 1941, in Fairbanks, have two S | children, Barbara and Thomas, | whose custody Mrs. . Smith asks. RETURNS | COLONEL NOYES APPLY FOR | Marie A. Doyon yesterday.i LICENSE Col. John R. Noyes, Alaska Road Commissioner, returned from Fairbanks. He has been away since late June, when he left to attend the sident Emeritus Day ceremonies honoring Dr. Charles E. Bunnell. Since then he has Gen. James G. Steese on a road | tol, inspection tour. General Steese is’ expected in Juneau next Monday. riage license. who has taken out her first Can- | adian citizenship papers. .cccmpanied | a Canadian who was born in Bris- Eng., is in the the liner Kathleen. through her divorce | and Henry R. White have applied at the U. S.| | Commissioner’s office for a mar- Miss ‘Doyon is a registered nurse 1 | White, | Canadian | merchant marine, a deck officer ull for Better BUY Better TRY Laundry Service Shirts finished at your request for a few cents extra Phone 15 way in Washington D. C. on the third deficiency bill which includes | the $15 million appropriation for | the Alaska Housing Authority, ac- | cording to information received by | Mrs. Johnson yesterday from AHA executive director, E. Glen Wilder. | Wilder is expected to stop in au the first of next week en- | from Washington to Anchor- | INVESTIGATION, " 5 PER-CENTERS, GETS WH OKEH (By Asaocxated Press) ! A White House official says t President Truman is squarely d an investigation of Wash- wton’s so-called five-per-centers. | These are the men who peddle| "Iwn- allegeq influence to manu- | facturers seeking government con- tracts. | The White ouse source says | that President Truman has told| Defense Secretary Louis Johnson | and Army Secretary Gordon Gray to go ahead with their inquiries into the five percenters. Mr. Tru- | man is said to have told Johnson and Gray to proceed regardless of practically every honor known in|the week for a short vacation at|who may be embarrassed by a Masonry. Seal Beach and Pomona. Her |check of operations. | Mr. Simmons is in the heating | daughter Lynn will accompany her This scurce puts President Tru- and plumbing business and during | Mrs. Johnson, who was recently [ man's position in these words—both the recent war completed heating | transferred to Anchorage as gen- |somewhat familiar expressions: ofwater." of many government buildihgs and | eral accountant for Territorial| “Let the chips fall where they Army camps throughout the Do-|AHA, was taken ill July 2, shortly { may.” minion of Canada. after her arrival there. And “it is up to the Army to Mr. Pool is an outstandi speaker and devotes his entire time in the interest of Royal Arch Ma- | sonry and holds the position of | Even ing, according to Mrs. Johnson. in the hospital there was clean its own dirty linen. no let up on the business of hous- Hearings are about to get under originated game of auction in India. 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